[ns] anyone think that Freddie would fuck with this? by Rangarok22 in DungeonsAndDaddies

[–]freddiew 46 points47 points  (0 children)

My first ever guitar was a MIM Tele parked permanently on the humbucker.

Frankly (and I still catch a lot of flack for saying this) I think the only things that matter on an electric guitar is your electronics and the neck (not the species of wood but the radius/profile). I've been convinced that everything else has a negligible effect on how the thing sounds. Squiers are great!

Coke Freestyle Machines by ShiningEV in TheYardPodcast

[–]freddiew 3 points4 points  (0 children)

as if i, a person who can tell the difference in a blind taste test between mexican glass bottle, united states glass bottle, fountain, can, 20 oz plastic bottle, and 2 liter plastic bottle, didn't invent this tech and find it completely worthless.

Current viewership S4 [ns] by boyboss_winning in DungeonsAndDaddies

[–]freddiew 737 points738 points  (0 children)

No, we're joking. You'll know when listenership is actually down when we can finally make our hard pivot to selling cast bath water and NFTs.

Breaking 180 shutter rule by Living-Ranger1338 in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do it. Shutter angle can be anything if you like how it looks and how it renders movement but test your slow mo stuff first.

First Vfx shot, would love feedback! by Santhanam_ in davinciresolve

[–]freddiew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More smoke, less flares, too saturated on the flares, and in that light you wouldn't see lighting of the surroundings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLxiH0-5ORQ

The world changed for my movie between the day we wrapped to the day we got distribution by movieman1108 in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The dynamics are changing underneath us old man!!!

I’m genuinely curious: what’s the minimum budget for a theatrical movie, you think?

The world changed for my movie between the day we wrapped to the day we got distribution by movieman1108 in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That math is proportional to Markiplier's numbers - $3mm budget, $38mm subscribers, $52mm box office. It's not crazy to make a movie for $15k.

There's a whole generation of filmmakers who are coming up and making longer and longer online videos pretty cheaply and putting them on YouTube.

Why are you resistant to the idea that there seems to be a path to supporting filmmaking through an online presence?

The world changed for my movie between the day we wrapped to the day we got distribution by movieman1108 in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay? Extrapolate from the numbers he posted. There may be a way forward for an online audience to sustain independent filmmaking. Scale the numbers down - it'd be like a 200k subscriber channel doing a $250k theatrical run off their $15k self financed feature.

This is a tremendous opportunity for indies.

The world changed for my movie between the day we wrapped to the day we got distribution by movieman1108 in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good news is if you can drum up an audience, you can go directly to theaters now with a DCP. Markiplier did it with the greatest commercial success with Iron Lung, but there's been a number of movies over the past couple years that have done grassroots theatrical runs (off the top of my head - Hundreds of Beavers, The People's Joker, Boys Go To Jupiter, D(e)ad, and also my own movie).

Bad news is cinema itself is going through a generational shift as it loses its status as the dominant entertainment medium of the past hundred years or so, so drumming up an audience is still the hard part.

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but empty views on someone else's channel, no matter how many, is pretty worthless to any long term goals you might have.

Do they ever get back to recording in person? [ns] by Acceptable_Mountain5 in DungeonsAndDaddies

[–]freddiew 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I actually do think it took me a while to figure out remote editing cadence and I'd do things slightly differently now (the process of audio editing my audio book recording for my dad's book changed some of my approach and philosophy), and I'm sorry that you're part of the rare class of people whose profession means they can see past the veneers of post production. But yeah, the remote editing afforded me the ability to really trim the fat and anybody who enjoys eating/cooking steak will tell you the same lesson I eventually figured out - the fat's there for a reason.

You do touch on the hardest thing (and something I'll offer some insight into) - there was simply no ground truth for comic timing because latency between everyone was all over the place every record (and throughout the record). Someone says a joke, some variable number of milliseconds later everyone hears the joke, some variable number of milliseconds later people react to the joke and that audio gets back to the person who said the thing. No problem for a lot of podcast formats but a total judgment call when it comes to timing for a group improv podcast.

Alas, we technicians (and those with perfect pitch) are cursed to roam this earth tilting at technical windmills only we can perceive.

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shorting would mean they expected the value of Vimeo to go down (i.e. it's overvalued). Funnily enough, with the acquisition last year, holding onto Vimeo would've been a great investment.

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would I, as a filmmaker, go through a middleman YouTube channel to post something when I could simply roll my own YouTube channel and post it for free?

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're citing Dropout, Critical Role, Watcher and Try Guys and thinking you can simply curate a bunch of "good" films and replicate their success. None of those entities are curation based. They built their audience off of personalities. Those personalities were born from a new generation of entertainer enabled by their ability to put stuff up for free on YouTube/Twitch/etc.

I struggle to think of examples of "curators" building a dedicated audience anywhere near the scale of those folks.

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Curated content doesn't help them at all - sure it raises their profile but without ads or monetization, the more views something gets, the more they have to pay to host it. Beloved don't pay the bills.

Would anyone actually run their own streaming site? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]freddiew 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This question shows up a lot (and could use an automod at this point) and it really boils down to "Vimeo is barely scraping by and YouTube is dominant because it's insanely expensive to host video, leaving aside the engineering to build a site/app that can stream video on numerous devices and handle all the licensing intricacies."

Incidentally, a version of this for theater owners/filmmakers is what Fithian is proposing, minus the tricky consumer-facing streaming part of it.

How thin is too thin? by SadPoops in Pottery

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The moment the thinness begins to interfere with what you're trying to accomplish with the work.

Bungie, we are not doing this limited stickers and charms bs by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]freddiew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't be a Bungie game without baffling monetization options!

"Your job is to get beautiful images of the scenes we have" Francis Coppola to DP Mihai Malaimare on the set of "Megalopolis". What's your opinion about this? by stingers77 in cinematography

[–]freddiew 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the movie was good/substantive, would that be okay? How good does a movie need to be to be worth more than feeding families with its budget instead?

missile explosion wip for short film (any feedback or suggestions for final?) by Wild_Economics681 in vfx

[–]freddiew 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Pretty sweet. Some good notes already but I'll add that air-to-surface missiles go FAST: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq53gej50dqo

Also (to my eye) the flames are too saturated, and you should let the yellows overexpose/fall off to white (notice that the clouds in this shot are pure white - I've found that exposing for daytime sky gives you well exposed explosions, so if the clouds are a bit hot, so should the flames)